Steve Boudreau

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Steve Boudreau is an Ottawa-based pianist who specializes in jazz and popular music. He currently teaches piano privately and as part of Carleton University's Music Performance program. In 2010 he received a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston. He has toured North America with multiple musical productions and has performed as both leader and sideman at various Canadian jazz festivals. His recently released trio album "Preludes: The Music of George Gershwin" has been getting radio play on Canadian jazz stations and a new quartet record of original music entitled "Opus 2" is now out, with guitarist Garry Elliott, bassist Adrian Vedady and drummer Camil Belisle.

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Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed this year's Ottawa Jazz Festival. It was a very special honour for me to be part of the house trio hosting the jam sessions every night for ten straight days - the…

Hey, just a quick note to say I've updated my calendar to reflect some Jazz Festival events, most notably the 24 hour jazz ramble which takes place from 10AM Friday to 10AM Saturday next weekend. I'll be on at noon…

My hopes of a regularly maintained thoughtful content-filled blog haven't materialized in the face of my regular practice and teaching schedule. However, I thought this might be a great and easy way to keep track of fun news and things…

Virtually immediately after you start playing jazz music you start getting pressure to know "all the standards". I remember a giant daunting list at the back of a popular jazz theory book (that I don't recommend) that said "Learn all…Read more

First of all, the very word "Bootlegging" has to do with clandestine action, and what started me thinking about this issue was the extremely overt and non-secretive manner in which people currently are reproducing live music.

My love for North Indian Classical music began when I took a course taught by Vinay Bhide at Carleton University in 2002. His introduction to Indian music was aimed at all Western musicians, but to me seemed geared even more…

For three of my posts in this series I wanted to record solo piano versions of songs that aren't covered by solo piano very often. This exercise of figuring out a vocal melody and harmony and making an arrangement is…Read more

I had the great opportunity to perform this piece with the composer himself conducting during my time at NEC. Without him I don't think any of us working in jazz full time with a large part of that work…Read more

After missing a week of my self-imposed schedule of weekly thoughts on music, and already being 24 hours behind and dangerously close to missing another I thought it might be good to whip off a quick note about something I…Read more

Once I realized that the actual improv going on was just over a C-pedal, I was curious to know what kind of material Bud would play. Generally it's melodic, beboppish, but the adventurous parts are especially exciting.

I want to congratulate my brother-in-law, Tyler Kealey for sticking to his insane goal of recording a different song every day for 2014. Here is the final video which includes many of my favourite Ottawa musicians. Not to leave anyone…Read more

Full time and part time musicians alike are living in an age where it is increasingly hard to put a monetary value on music. In the 20th century, people in the western world found ways to monetize every aspect of…Read more